Hi,
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 06:47:46PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 07/08/2011 06:04 PM, John Hasler wrote:
Wayne writes:
I am not in the habit of installing packages that known to not work.
If the package was known not to work the bug would be grave.
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:43:39AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
...
IMVHO the static routes part should be moved to ifupdown. How about a
'whishlist' bug?
Yah! With new maintainer team, it may be worth it.
But make sure to provide compatible patch. ifupdown package is a bit
involved one :-)
Hi,
I use MacBook (Old while one) via rEFIT.
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:17:55AM -0400, Dan wrote:
Hi,
I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will
mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian?
I look into the documentation of rEFIT and it looks like
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:54:34AM +0300, yazicivo wrote:
Hi,
I have an XFS partition, which is
1) Mistakenly quick formatted as FAT16. 2) At first, I couldn't see
in fdisk -l that it is set to FAT16, instead of Linux. Hence tried
to fix it with xfs_recover. xfs_recover returned 0, and
Hi,
Wow SunFire T2000... That is fancy ULTRASPARC machine.
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:43:51AM -0700, Scott Simpson wrote:
I'm using 6.2.0.1 from June 26th. Should be pretty current. I can think of
two
approaches:
1. Boot version 5 and see if my video card isn't the one mentioned in the
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:43:51AM -0700, Scott Simpson wrote:
I'm using 6.2.0.1 from June 26th. Should be pretty current. I can think of
two
approaches:
I see. I overlooked this. Dah ... Sorry for noise.
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On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:07:25PM -0700, T Elcor wrote:
Am having problems running KDE apps as root.
(...)
I do not know about exact reason why but...
Generally, it is bad idea to run desktop application as root. So
application system may put some
Hi,
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 10:57:15AM +, Camaleón wrote:
...
I only have 2 users in my debian box: me and root.
You can create new account from GUI, too.
When I need to test if there is a configuration issue with the browser
(or my Gnome profile), I launch it as root because it has an
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:21:22AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
*do you have a /var/run/wpa_supplicant??*
No.
I do not know what is causing you this PM problem.
I had some hybernation problems about a year ago while in squeeze/testing.
Some of them were kernel problems which I needed to
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:07:25PM -0700, T Elcor wrote:
Hi,
Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce:
1. Open the KDE Menu Editor
2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to Konqueror-2)
3. Goto the Advanced tab and check the Run as a different
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:17:44PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm trying to compile emacs-24 on a newly installed squeeze system.
I get the error C compiler cannot create executables
Googling on that, gets several different answers.
apt-get install build-essentials (didn't didn't
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:25:43AM -0400, Christian Jaeger wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to install squeeze with / being a partition dmcrypt'ed
with luks. Is Debian supposed to support that or not? For me the
debian installer failed to do it, so I sent mail to debian-boot about
it [1] and then since
Hi,
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:17:54PM -0400, Dick Bayerl wrote:
I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with
the same problem.
Debian and Ubuntu are a bit different on this issue.
Since login to root using X displaymanager is not so good idea, I
mention console
Hi,
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:42:37PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:43:28PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700,
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:10:08AM +0300, sdc wrote:
Michelle Konzack, don't know why you are replying since the problem has been
solved. Read the thread, if you are looking for flame, flame elsewhere. By
the way, is there an option to mark this mail as a solved so others will
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 01:15:31AM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 21:49 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
You know 1M stands for 1*1000*1000*1000 not 1*1024*1024*1024.
I'm half asleep, so I may not be thinking straight, but isn't that one
too many multiplications, in both cases
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 07:46:06PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011, at 07:13:13 -0500, Mark Kane wrote:
I suppose I should have tested this before for thoroughness, but in
Debian Lenny it works! So to summarize:
# dd if=image.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M
You know 1M stands for
Hi Pierre,
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 12:02:43PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Ron Johnson wrote:
how to modify my address without doing unsubscribe/subscribe?
The answer to your question is: unsubscribe the old address. Subscribe
the new one.
I'm afraid your logic is
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 03:06:05PM +0400, George Chelidze wrote:
Hello,
I'v got 2 boxes running squeeze and lenny, both up to date. On a box
with squeeze, I copied 1.8G images to a 2G flash drive and tried to
move them to my lenny box. After mounting a drive (hal) on a lenny
box cpu
Hi,
I did not check exact situation ...
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:35:15PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
Why is tomboy in the default basic desktop when installed from the
netinstall CD?
I assume so since gnome Depends on tomboy (= 1.2) | gnote.
See it by:
$ apt-cache show gnome|grep tomboy
And,
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:04:47AM -0700, Joe Riel wrote:
This morning I ran
$ sudo aptitude update
$ aptitude --simulate safe-upgrade
Resolving dependencies...
open: 16431; closed: 11272; defer: 105; conflict: 54
At this point it kept churning; the number of
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 03:25:02PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote:
I just found a box in my basement that I haven't touched in many years. I
checked sources.list, and it was built when woody was stable and sarge was
testing. The box was running sid. So I thought it would be an interesting
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 07:07:50PM +, darkestkhan wrote:
You know you are arguing with people who have been using sid under
controlled and considerate ways for YEARS. (Not just a year.)
2011/3/12 John Hasler jhas...@debian.org:
darkestkhan writes:
...I don't see a reason why
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:32:47PM +0100, Aniruddha wrote:
I've collected some best practices for running Debian unstable, I'm
curious to hear what other Debian unstable users do to minimize
possible problems with running Debian unstable. My current list:
* Install apt-listbugs
* Install
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:26:02PM +, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:13:17 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote:
I'd especially like to hear from those of you who are Linux consultants
or sysadmins. This is a timely topic given that Debian Squeeze moved
from the testing branch to the
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:56:55PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
OK, since nobody knows, then what does recovery mode,
/boot/grub/grub.cfg:
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.37-1-686 (recovery mode)'
I think this put system to something like runlevel S or 1
do to the
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:25:39AM -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:18:20AM +0100, Klistvud wrote:
4. The sshd daemon allows root logins by default.
Oh brother. The ssh daemon also allows logins via passwords. I assume
you think this is less secure as well, as ssh
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:58:04AM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
Hi all,
I having weird problem with experimental repository.
I want try latest pulseaudio package pulseaudio-module-jack_0.9.22,
but this package is available via synaptic.
I tried also apt-get install, but same result.
HI,
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:22:23AM -0500, Kete wrote:
Hello, why have the authors of the Debian 6 release notes chosen to
recommend apt-get?
Because it is more robust for non-interactive dist-upgrade.
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:53:14PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Du, 30 ian 11, 12:47:43, Camaleón wrote:
sm01@stt008:~$ ls -l | awk '{print $9}'
Desktop
Documentos
file:
News
PDF
No need for awk, ls will do that with the -1 (the digit 1) option or by
default if the
HI,
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 03:22:12AM +, T o n g wrote:
Hi,
I need to start gdm by default on one of my boxes, which is currently
booting into text mode.
I do have gdm installed:
$ dpkg -l | grep gdm
ii gdm2.20.11-4 GNOME Display Manager
It's still
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 02:09:30PM +, Steve Kleene wrote:
I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. I'm replacing a
seven-year-old PC, now running Lenny, that has been crashing off and on for a
couple of years.
When I built my first Debian machine, I had to use
Hi,
It seems Bob explained good basics but I think there is some other
confusion here.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 08:13:38PM +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote:
AFAIK, allow-hotplug makes the interface come up only when a cable
is plugged in.
No when device becomes available to Linux kernel even if
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 10:05:43AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
I'm not very skilled at writing shell scripts.
#! /bin/sh
for k in $(ls *.JPG); do convert $k -resize 1024 $k; done
I use the above script to batch re-size digital camera photos after I
dump them to my web server. It takes a
Hi,
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:11:04AM -0600, John W Foster wrote:
I recently lost a USB stick. It didn't have any thing of a security
concern on it but got me to thinking. Does anyone know of an application
that will; encrypt the drive completely;
Linux kernel :-)
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:04:27PM +0100, pt3...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm a Debian Squeeze new user and have some basic questions about
Debian package tools.
Is it true I should avoid APT and use some other frontend or, better,
dpkg directly?
Who told you to stay unhappy?
I
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 09:56:36AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
What you have is some sort of image format inside a PDF container. It
is probably already compressed, which is why Zip had little effect on
it. You need to extract the image, use image software to shrink it, and
put it back in a
Hi,
Debian package respects all sysadmin choices. We do not overwrite them.
If not, that is a serious bug.
Some careful and respectful questining to keep this promise seem to
annoy some people who have not found typical work around steps.
(Besides, there were some bug on apatch2 package.)
On
Hi,
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 03:29:21PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
I know you know very well on Debian system but may not be old enough to
use dselect with dpkg-ftp etc :-) So some historic comments differ from
what I thought.
On Vi, 31 dec 10, 12:24:34, Bob Proulx wrote:
Andrei Popescu
Hi,
I am not developer of insserve ...
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 01:37:48AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
On Wed December 29 2010 00:13:04 Camaleón wrote:
...
Thanks for looking into this. I still fail to see why saving half a
second a year on server booting is worth inflecting days of drudgery
on
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 06:39:23PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
Background:
I run fetchmail in a script wrapper called by my user crontab.
Changing the interval at which the cronjob runs to 10 min. instead of
every five minutes broke the implied POP before SMTP authorization.
Apparently, my
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:32:42AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
I tried taking a friend's machine from lenny to squeeze and it
turned into a disaster. As a consequence of the attempt his entire
package update and repair systems are broken.
We know apt-get dist-upgrade usually works but
Hi,
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 07:19:48AM +0100, Andreas wrote:
Am 06.12.2010 20:28, schrieb Camaleón:
Then you should ask yourself why kpackage is failing in searching those
packages while other tools just work fine:-)
Has Andreas checked this is really the case for his set up?
It looks to
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 03:25:20PM -0800, Tech Geek wrote:
I am using Debian Lenny on my AMD Anthlon X2 box. Currently I am using
mediawiki version 1.12 that shipps with Lenny. However, I would like to
upgrade to latest version of mediawiki 1.16 [1]. I know Debian backports has
1.15 but I
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 12:36:20PM +, Harry Scott wrote:
I wanted help to install a nvidia legacy graphics driver for TNT 2 AGP
so I thought to contact the user lists for guidance. This was not
possible because:
1 When I tried to use evolution after asking permission (used windows
Hi,
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 08:15:08AM +, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:37:19 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-12-08 23:41 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote:
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
You should use update-rc.d network-manager disable instead. See
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 07:15:02PM +, Camaleón wrote:
Hello,
I wonder if it is possible to increase the verbosity of apt-get console
output.
For example, in my perpetual testing machine, I use this one-liner to
update the system:
***
apt-get update apt-get -V dist-upgrade
***
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:09:16AM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Yahya Mohammad mfya...@gmail.com writes:
I want to use a custom compiled version of ffmpeg to enable some extra
features. What is the best way to do this? I do not want to break
anything that depends on
Hi,
Short answer: USB flash can die.
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 02:07:09PM +0200, lee wrote:
Hi,
I´m having trouble copying files for backup purposes to an USB disk
with rsync. Copying the files sometimes fails with Input/output error
(5), and I´m getting messages in the syslog like these:
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:58:15PM +0530, Ravi Roy wrote:
Hi
Could somebody help me as how to port pacakges between distributions ... for
example a package which exists in debian 5.0 lenny but does not exists
in debian 4.0 etch and I need the same package in debian 4.0 etch.
Why? ...
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:58:22AM +0530, Thomas Vazhappilly wrote:
Hi..!
I am a migrant from MS Windoz to Gnu/Linux. Only one problem where I stuck
is, I cannot key in some characters in UTF-8 such as CURRENCY SIGN as in
typing MS Windoz. In MSW I can get the character by holding the alt
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 05:13:52AM +, T o n g wrote:
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:52:48 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
...
May I suggestion one minor amend to debian-reference?
About having N/A for 'aptitude why' with apt-get/apt-cache, how about at
least put 'apt-cache rdepends' there? That's
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:36:52PM +, T o n g wrote:
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:30:30 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
To hold a Debian package not to be updated by apt-get
echo $package hold | dpkg --set-selections
Please note that such holding will not work for aptitude. . .
I just
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:06:39AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 26 Aug 2010, T o n g wrote:
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:21:02 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
Old information may not be valiad for new apt-get :-)
You may see change in release note:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:54:54AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:27:58PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:23:56PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html#s-aptitude
This needs update
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 09:08:10PM +, T o n g wrote:
First of all, sorry that I miss read your meaning.
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:47:30 -0400, Anticept . wrote:
Can apt-get hold back package updates like aptitude? This might be one
of them.
Yes, it can, but it's done at the dpkg
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:13:26PM +, s. keeling wrote:
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com:
I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it
OK to do so?
I've not read your link.
Joey Hess wrote a long critique in here a couple of years ago, saying
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:23:56PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
On 08/25/2010 01:09 PM, T o n g wrote:
I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it OK to
do so?
Yes. However, aptitude is a much more powerful program. Check my blog
post on the many reasons to use
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 09:08:10PM +, T o n g wrote:
First of all, sorry that I miss read your meaning.
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:47:30 -0400, Anticept . wrote:
Can apt-get hold back package updates like aptitude? This might be one
of them.
Yes, it can, but it's done at the dpkg
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:33:16PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
While running cfdisk, it lists various file system types. Is there a
document which explains the difference between similar file systems?
In particular, if I want to have a windows XP type of filesystem, do I go
with 07
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:38:01PM +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote:
Hi!
* Andreas Goesele schrieb am Sa, 07.08.2010 um 12:51 (+0200):
for me the xpdf fonts are too small. So I changed them by putting
xpdf*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
into .Xresources
But
Hi,
I thank your efforts but I have to remind you that you need to find right
way to make change in Debian. None of us are paid to be full time.
There are many loose ends. Reporting to wrong ML is not the best action.
What you are telling us is:
1. packages maintained by
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 11:12:45AM +, Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:48:14 +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530024
...
Mmm, if the bug is that ethernet cards are not detected/recognized by
default by NM, yes, the problem is
Hi,
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 05:12:13AM +0800, Guo Jiahua wrote:
Hi, everyone,
I'm a user of DEBIAN 5.0. And I use adsl to connect to the Internet. I
think pppd is the key program to connect.
My ISP requires a MAC address which is different from my laptop.
MAC ? IN what way they require MAC
Hi,
There are many ways to solve issues.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 01:17:22AM -0400, H.S. wrote:
Now I have the skim applet on my KDE panel but I am not able to switch
the languages. I have done no other modifications in any files though. I
was hoping that using scim (in KDE, using skim?)
Hi,
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 08:56:13AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 07:54, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/07/10 07:49 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
Sourcing ~/.bashrc does not work for programs started by menu as I
understand. So this is not the best solution
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 08:55:43AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:26:16PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
Hint: In the old days interfaces were quite static on systems. But
with the coming of removable and hotplug devices such as PCMCIA or USB
network interface cards
Hi,
Your objective is:
I have to do so because it is impossible for now to boot from CD/USB.
And I want to move from ext3 to ext4.
Although pivot_root etc. may be used but that is too fancy...
If I were you, I do the following:
1. boot from internal HDD
2. mount externel HDD and copy your
Hi,
I do not exactly know your problem but suspend and hibernate are not always
exclusive things. Some configuration puts system into suspend to memory while
having the same data stored into harddisk too. So you win in both boot time
and complete battery drain situation.
see uswsusp package.
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:50:13PM +0530, prakhar gaur wrote:
This is my first week with Debian 504. I am using it as a host system to
build LFS(Linux From Scratch).
I ran a script which checks whether all prerequisites are there on the host
system(Debian 504).
There is no Debian 504. It
Hi,
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 03:09:01PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 24 May 2010, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-05-24 01:28 +0200, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying
teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back to 80x25?
Hi,
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 03:03:42AM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
Hi, Osamu:
On Wednesday 19 May 2010 03:45:36 Osamu Aoki wrote:
Hi,
There are 2 different topics.
* Which is better shape testing or unstable for security issues?
(original question)
The answer
Hi,
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:48:44AM -0400, Steve Fishpaste wrote:
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:42:16AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. uttered:
On Friday 21 May 2010 10:23:15 Steve Fishpaste wrote:
In my opinion we should keep up with the new releases at least weekly.
Is this on the
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:00:41PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
How about this instead of the last paragraph:
---
Please note that the Security Team does not monitor unstable. It is up
to the individual maintainer to fix the issue.
YES
This may under circumstances take longer, e.g. if
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:07:10AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
On 5/17/2010 10:43 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon,17.May.10, 10:29:57, Mark Allums wrote:
Backwards. Sid gets no security, AT ALL. Testing get some.
If some issue is fixed for stable the fix is also applied for unstable,
Hi,
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:11:20PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 00:34 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:07:10AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
On 5/17/2010 10:43 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon,17.May.10, 10:29:57, Mark Allums wrote
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:58:24PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Osamu Aoki writes:
Sid is secure since security team usually upload fixed packages to
both stable/updates and unstable.
The security team does not support Sid. That's up to the individual
package maintainers.
True. But I see
Hi,
There are 2 different topics.
* Which is better shape testing or unstable for security issues?
(original question)
* What dees security team do and ensures?
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:21:20PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
On 5/18/2010 10:34 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Mon, May 17, 2010
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 03:49:26PM +0200, Erwan David wrote:
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
...
I would say that the problem with testing is more that it does not get
immediately the security patrch that Sid and stable gets, since they
wait before being committed from sid to testing.
True.
(ANd if
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 08:23:09AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 05/15/2010 08:16 AM, RyanJB wrote:
Thanks for the comprehensive reply, it's like you just whipped up
a new documentation for this problem ;)
I think it's best for me to run lenny with backport. My need is
actually only a stable
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:17:36AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
+1 Sid/Unstable
Yep, even though it's called unstable it's like a rock.. :)
Indeed, and that needs to be stressed. Unstable it may be called
but I find it very stable, as long as you don't burn your bridges
behind you.
Yes
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:52:48PM +, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 11 May 2010 20:40:58 +0100, Lisi wrote:
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 17:24:02 Nima Azarbayjany wrote:
Hi all,
How do you add support for East Asian fonts in Debian Lenny? For
example, a default install of Lenny does not show
Hi,
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:37:05AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
Hello Debian Users,
A regression introduced in kernel 2.6.30, where the beeps produced by
the BIOS on power chord removal are disabled[1] was recently fixed for
2.6.33 which AFAIK will *not* be in Squeeze.
...
provided
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 04:39:55AM +, T o n g wrote:
On Thu, 06 May 2010 06:09:21 +0200, godo wrote:
I came across an universal apt source site that will detect determine
the fastest mirror for each individual user. Now I forgot where to find
the info. Anyone can help?
I don't
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:49:20AM +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
I want to put my server in a server hotel.
But: I don't trust my server hotel owner.
What can I do?
I am no expert on this issue but this is my common sense.
Do not use such untrusted servers for the sensitive data.
You
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 02:18:02PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
Xuan Ngo xuanngol...@yahoo.ca writes:
Where can I find the definitions of all sections in the Control file?
Examples of sections: admin, cli-mono, comm, database, devel, debug,
doc, editors, electronics, embedded, fonts,
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:09:58PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 11:38:08, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and aptitude is not a problem anymore.
Sure? How can you state this? Any proof? I always thought that they were
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 04:52:50AM -0700, Freeman wrote:
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:16:20PM +0800, ja123 huang wrote:
Yep, I have the same problem. It is intermittent. Sieving through dmesg,
syslog and kdm.log, the culprit is DRM error. Web search shows it has to do
with loading sequence of
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 01:26:33PM +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
how can I set my gpg key as the default? man gpg doesn't helps this
What are you using gpg from?
If not directly, then you also need to look for mutt and devscripts
(debuild) which keep their default key in their config.
Osamu
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:23:18AM +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote:
Hi,
due to a discussion of git I would like to know which of the
numerous git-packages I have to
install on lenny when I want to use git in my local environment.
Minimum:
git-core
Reasonable
git-doc
gitk
If you use svn
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:22:00AM -0500, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
hi,
I installed PLlinuxOS which use apt-get with rpm
Hi, this is Debian User mailing list.
I got an error deb format is not recognized
In debian the rpm is not recognized, here deb is not
apt is ported to rpm
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:42:59PM -0600, John W Foster wrote:
-Original Message-
From: surreal firewal...@gmail.com
He told me he did his part subscribing ...
It may be lost to spam box but f it is not these...
...
-
Just a guess but
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:51:26AM -0500, S.D.A. wrote:
I doubt it. GMail recognizes e-mail from the owner of the account as
duplicate,(and doesn't show them, but they're in the 'Mail' directory)
not replies to the original.
I do not recall exactly but your pop3 forwarding will not forward
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:43:15PM +0100, Julien Vehent wrote:
Hi Debian folks,
I was considering testing this little piece of hardware that guruplug is.
http://www.newit.co.uk/shop/proddetail.php?prod=GuruPlug-Server
Very attractive, but no vga output. So, next question is: how do I
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:40:04AM +0530, surreal wrote:
Its a couple of times I have noticed that I am not getting reply in my
inbox..
Have you done your part of work
I had raised some queries and people had replied to it, but I didnt get any
of it in my inbox, had to manually go
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 02:47:19PM +, Jon Dowland wrote:
Last time this was asked someone suggested UDF, which I
thought was novel.
You can stick a UDF filesystem onto a block device from
Debian using mkudffs in the udftools package.
What nobody has clarified is whether this can
Hi,
debconf is an infrastructure where a package ask configuration question
to the sys admin. There are few different front end for sys admin to
interact with debconf.
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 10:58:18PM -0800, vikram wrote:
hi,
I am studying the Debian package management system. I am
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 01:41:54PM +0100, Martin Kraus wrote:
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 09:58:43PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
Earlier, I wrote what I think was a confusing reply to this.
In Debian
Squeeze, there are two packages for qemu, one named qemu, the other qemu-kvm.
Both are based on
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:44:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-05 22:14, Mark wrote:
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
Why do you think you need to blank the partition before installing
lenny? There *are* reasons to do that, but they
Hi,
Recent udev packges in squeeze/sid lack vol_id command since 22 Aug 2009
(146-1). What is the best way to obtain UUID of partition?
I could read it like ...
$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid|grep sda4
Is this the best way? Any thoughts ?
Osamu
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